From Ukraine last year, to Nagorno-Karabakh last month and now Israel, it really does feel like there's a trend of people becoming more comfortable with using large-scale unilateral violence to solve problems. That trend itself greatly worries me; each instance normalizes and legitimizes the next.

Dictators seem more confident the last few years

Europe's softness towards Putin encouraged him in Ukraine (but development in Armenia is evidence the Russian empire's grip is now slipping)

We now also see the result of the appeasement of the Iranian regime

Did the West get too financialized and ignored geopolitics?

Seems like Hamas tricked western and Israeli intelligence that they had also become equally financialized and disinterested in war

If so, they really played into the western state of mind to disable the defences against barbarism

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Seems like Hamas tricked western and Israeli intelligence that they had also become equally financialized and disinterested in war

If so, they really played into the western state of mind to disable the defences against barbarism
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1711749133546205684?t=1Dh27R3awV2QeLSv6quk0Q&s=19